SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: European Canadian, Asteroid Family, Southern Italy
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1608 champlain established first immigrant families, black slavery introduced in 1608 with the french and then continued under british until 1984? when it was made illegal. Big businesses and economy need for cheap labor (degenerates), wanted to build a nation of superior people which was not people who provided cheap labor; created tension. Basis of policies was to build a white, british settler nation; from 1600s-1880s, with exception of. Aboriginals and black slaves, the rest of the population who were immigrants were almost entirely. British, french or german (british and germans had same origins and religion), upper middle class. Starting in 1880s there was a need to get cheap labor, population of immigrants were sparcely populated, settlement from ontario and east, some in vancouver, but that"s all. Saved, shared and lived meagerly in order to try to come up with the , state saw a slow but consistent trickle of chinese immigrants.
